| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Just Folks by Edgar A. Guest: That he could play baseball.
"I haven't played in fifteen years,
Said father, "but I know
That I can stop the grounders hot,
And I can make the throw.
I used to play a corking game;
The curves, I know them all;
And you can count on me, you bet,
To join your game of ball."
On Saturday the game was played,
And all of us were there;
Just Folks |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs: geous and impressive spectacle as he hurled himself
upon the Londoners, whom he had selected for at-
tack because of the affront they had put upon his
mother that day at London on the preceding July.
So vicious was his onslaught that the poorly armed
and unprotected burghers, unused to the stern game of
war, fell like sheep before the iron men on their iron
shod horses. The long lances, the heavy maces, the six-
bladed battle axes, and the well tempered swords of
the knights played havoc among them, so that the rout
was complete; but, not content with victory, Prince
The Outlaw of Torn |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from An Old Maid by Honore de Balzac: added, remembering the insistence with which the chevalier had spoken
of the evils of education in such schools.
What a catastrophe! Unknown to himself, the luckless Athanase had had
an occasion to fling an ember of his own fire upon the pile of brush
gathered in the heart of the old maid. Had he listened to her, he
might have made her, then and there, perceive his passion; for, in the
agitated state of Mademoiselle Cormon's mind, a single word would have
sufficed. But that stupid absorption in his own sentiments, which
characterizes young and true love, had ruined him, as a child full of
life sometimes kills itself out of ignorance.
"What have you been saying to Mademoiselle Cormon?" demanded his
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